radicalised by listening to a ten minute sermon here or join forces with other so called terrorists or other radicalised people at the centre. we have no room for radicalisation. i can say that 100%, i m very sure. tell me about your relationship with the police and security services. i mean, there were some criticism that you hadn t worked, this mosque hadn t worked that closely. but were you ever told anything about abedi? you know, were you ever given any worrying information? we were never told anything about abedi. and i would reiterate and repeat that we were never told anything about abedi or anybody else. there were other terrorists who we were told used to frequent the centre. we never knew them. we were never told about them. of course, i m going to criticise the police, if they knew, had they been told
trying to tackle the spread of islamic extremism. he says some young muslims like salman abedi were seduced by the violent glamour of the is story, a stark contrast to their lives here. these things you would see on everyday news, front page of the newspapers are muslims, benefit frauds, benefit thieves. so muslims were very demonised, muslim youths were demonised and disenfranchised. so, many muslims felt under attack. so when people were seeing the marketing of is, they were saying, hey, i m hated, but this could be a place where i can live, where i m free, where i can live in, like, a utopia. salman abedi accessed extreme islamist propaganda online, but it was his immediate family who exerted the strongest influence. his father, ramadan abedi, was a hardcore islamist who fled gaddafi s regime. he arrived in manchester with his wife samia in 1993 and settled into what was to become the largest libyan exile community in the uk.
a complete picture of. ..of the petri dish absolutely brimming with germs, if you like. chanting of prayers didsbury mosque. the abedi family worshipped here. the arena inquiry heard claims from the family s legal teams that the mosque had turned a blind eye to extremism. sirjohn didn t find any evidence of that or that it radicalised salman abedi, but he said it wilfully ignored highly charged political tensions between libyan factions there. for the first time, the mosque agreed to answer those extremism allegations. how can people say that we have radicalised or are radicalising people? as i mentioned to other people, my children could have been at the arena. there were muslim children at the arena. what that person, salman abedi, did was evil. and he definitely did not become
brimming with germs, if you like. chanting of prayers didsbury mosque. the abedi family worshipped here. the arena inquiry heard claims from the family s legal teams that the mosque had turned a blind eye to extremism. sirjohn didn t find any evidence of that or that it radicalised salman abedi, but he said it wilfully ignored highly charged political tensions between libyan factions there. for the first time, the mosque agreed to answer those extremism allegations. how can people say that we have radicalised or are radicalising people? as i mentioned to other people, my children could have been at the arena. there were muslim children at the arena. what that person,
better what s going on and identify those specific individuals who are involved. i see no evidence in the inquiry that that happened. one of those libyan extremists living in the city was this man, anas al libi, a friend of ramadan abedi. given asylum here in 1995, he was later arrested by the us government, accused of plotting attacks on us embassies in nairobi and dar es salaam. this 180 page text on how to wage a jihadist war was found in his flat. it s now known as the manchester manual. salman abedi s brothers, ismail and hashem, were also significant influences. the investigation revealed they both had large amounts of material relating to is. ismail, bbc news. can i ask you a few questions, please?